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Referee's report by William Cawthorne Unwin, on a paper 'On the conditions for effective scour in drain-pipes of circular section' by Henry Hennessy

Reference number: RR/10/271

Date: 09 March 1889

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Not recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. The paper gives no practical results. It is 'the worst type of merely mathematical solutions of practical problems'.

Subject: Physics, Applied Sciences, Mathematics

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1889]

Reference number
RR/10/271
Earliest possible date
09 March 1889
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
Format
Manuscript

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William Cawthorne Unwin

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William Cawthorne Unwin, Referee's report by William Cawthorne Unwin, on a paper 'On the conditions for effective scour in drain-pipes of circular section' by Henry Hennessy, 09 March 1889, RR/10/271, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_271/referees-report-by-william-cawthorne-unwin-on-a-paper-on-the-conditions-for-effective-scour-in-drain-pipes-of-circular-section-by-henry-hennessy, accessed on 14 January 2025

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